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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex, Human, Characters

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Humanity

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison

Science, Mind, Cannot

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
Armstrong Williams

Greatest, Real, After

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Happy, Wife

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

Hell, Devil, Reward

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Conquer, Strive

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Time, Knowledge, Forget

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith

Peace, Justice, Else

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil

Attention, Fullest, Ecstasy

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great, Poetry, Find

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace

High, Fall, Mountain

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Death, Spiritual

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Thomas Fuller

Smile, Society, Him

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

Life, Wise, Greatest

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell

Progress, Security, Soon

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner

Life, Goal, Free

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas

Life, Another, Dead

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Character, Human, Analysis

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley

Faith, Knowledge, Him

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes

Best, Knowledge, Science

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Andrew Jackson

Life, May, Soul

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.
Brian Tracy

Human, Goal, Possible

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall

Humanity, Ourselves, Pay

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana

Love, Fame, Vanity

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham

Together, Cannot, Creative

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza

Learning, Human, Understand

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt

Wisdom, Wish, Virtue

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Joseph Ratzinger

Moving, Ego, Goal

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